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  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few ... Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  living crisis to crisis." In the joke, however, was a pearl of truth; we ... extensions on assignments, looking for a way to cling to the raft of life while ... . This semester, I didn't call them for a period of about three weeks. To

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  city is so congested, living close to a train station will be one of the ... when I say that I’ve been to a place where so many people bike. I have ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... work, or even to identify those who will finish a four-year undergraduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... , super-excited about coming to MIT, it's for a reason. There's seriously an ... BROUGHT ME ORANGE JUICE because we have a lot of Terrascope work to do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a ... do great things and you are going to have a wonderful college ... else I can really think to say. I am a firm believer that everything

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  , Lozada had to work, and later, she started a family. Today, she will see ... MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a ... year, you'll go to MIT.' '' Neither Wilfredo nor Elizabeth Lozada has a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... may be a liberal from the OC, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  /individuality (presence/absence, travel/home) This semester, I moved to a new hall within ... or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... their own modifications and designs (subject to a sort of "salary cap ... of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a ... applying early is a great way to show the admissions office that you ... get a second chance, there isn't an advantage to applying early. If

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to ... Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  ,” and then proceeded to do so….   When I came to MIT as a super ... . Look as a blogger I feel slightly obligated to tell you guys otherwise ... that fact. MIT was simply just a place I happened to live; it was no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... ! Another factor I'll have to consider when selecting a class is whether they allow me to take photographs. I should ask my classmates sign photo

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... getaways. I'm also my own best friend; I am a daydreamer. A surefire way to ... -California border. A restless curiosity sheltered by walls of mountains gave birth to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... little more wary and a little less [annotation note="To be fair I don ... tolerate you but I will not code" and switched to a joint humanities and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your ... believe it just a little. Eventually you do have to start making a choice

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim ... had every opportunity to learn, but I was too busy applying to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  ]Granted, this class is still related to STEM, but it takes a much more social ... .000 discovery course,[/annotation]it’s a lot to keep up with.  I was also ... those rare moments for me, I find coding to be really frustrating. After a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... to drop a class, don't worry." I did not. I took six classes, and I ... a class to listener; I am auditing the class now. Three. Now, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022